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Natural movement and thoughts on rehab
Physical rehabilitation is an important part of medicine. When I was on the stroke team on my Neurology clerkship, the main goal of our team (after we identified and localized the stroke) was to make...
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Road Trip!
I have more to write about lipids and liver (consider yourselves warned!), but I likely won’t have a post out on that subject for a little while. During the last month I have been enjoying my Family...
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Truth in Fiction
A few months ago I did a two-week elective with our hospital’s Emergency Medical Services. Over those two weeks I saw all manner of medical “emergencies”. Some were true emergencies, but plenty were...
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Wilderness Medicine- The Medicine
OK- enough (for now) of the photo documentation of my past month of explorations! While I am keen to write more about the environment, wildlife, and general experience of my last month in Utah, it’s...
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Happy Fourth!
Happy Fourth of July to my American readers! I hope you get some rest, relaxation, socialization, and good food today! I’m off to a friend’s BBQ where I’ll be partaking in lots of smoked pork...
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A Secret Handshake
I always get excited when I meet a fellow student in the medical world who has an interest in evolutionary and ancestral thinking. It doesn’t happen often, but I’ve twice run into students who, by...
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Adventures in Ecuador…
I have a rather embarrassing admission to make: when I first started looking at taking a trip to the Galapagos three months ago I didn’t actually know that the islands were part of Ecuador. Two months...
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An Evolutionary Understanding of Xenophobia
I’m approaching being 2/3 of the way through residency. *Gulp!*. My opportunities for writing have been fairly minimal for the last two years but, as ever, I am optimistic I’ll have more time in the...
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Why New Zealand?
This is a question I get a lot… If you’ve followed this blog for a while (including through a long hiatus), or you know me, you’ll likely know I grew up in New Jersey, went to university in New...
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Cuisine Recollections
Yesterday, with my bike and a friend, I took a peddle down the Little River Rail Trail, starting in Motukarara and going just over 22km to Little River where we stopped for lunch before peddling back....
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